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In article <6779@g.ms.uky.csnet> david@ms.uky.csnet (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
>In article <642@umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey@ub.UUCP (Rob Healey) writes:
>>	Encore Mutimax series
>>	Sequent  (I think)
>>	This message is comming to you from an Encore Multimax. 

	I put this in to show that the system isn't what is to be but
	an actual functioning system.
>> 8 CPU's
>>	functioning as one fast one. 4.2 BSD, networking, and a whole lot
>>	more. Encore and Sequent show the awsome power that can be unleashed
>>	from just a 32032. The mind reels at the thought of 32532's in place
>>	of 32032's!! 
>If I remember correctly, the current MultiMax has 32332's in it.  And
>according to the sales guy(s) who visited us a couple weeks ago, they
>had a large hand in the development of the 32332 and 32532.

	We have one of the first Max's, that's why we have 032's instead of
	332's. The Max we have handles student programming and handles
	64 users with very little slow down. The worst load average we've
	seen without TRYING to overload the machine is about 6 or so. When
	we ran parrellel make we tweeaked it up to 13.9x. The new CPU boards
	are supposed to offer a nocticable improvement. We've beta tested alot
	of their new kernels and Encore has ALWAYS responded quickly to
	problems we've found, usually by having our crash dump federal
	expressed to them overnight. For a commercial site UMAX 4.2 should
	be VERY stable, we mix equipment horribly here which has caused
	most of the problems. If you stick with Encore equipment ALL the
	way you won't have very many problems.
>
>We are currently evaluating machines in order to buy a machine of this
>sort.  We have a 23 processor 32032 Sequent in our machine room which
>Sequent has lent to us.  It's a nice machine.  In comparing it with the
>MultiMax (description only, we've never used one) it seems they're very
>very similar machines.
>----- David Herron,  cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@ms.uky.csnet

	We've only dabbled in actual parallel code but as far as the CPU's
   co-operating with each other and staying sain the Max does the job.
   Pascal, fortran and C all allow access to the parallel routines. If you
   have any specific pointed questions you'd like to ask let me know via
   email and I'll answer them as best I can.

		-Rob Healey

		rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu

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